If the murder charge doesn't stick, they'll get him on culpable homicide. But looking at this, if there's a chance of any of them getting off lightly, it will probably be Themba, with a good lawyer of course. Remember JubJub caused the accident by hitting the other car.
Themba's car lost control due to being hit by JubJub and rammed into the kids. He had no control over that. If he was not hit he would driven past the kids. It's a possibility.
Or, the way the cops are going about this, they could get off on a technicality i.e. "Police f***ing up the investigation as usual".
Read below from a sunday paper.
Hip-Hop phenomenon Jub Jub’s fatal car crash drama took a new twist on Friday when two witnesses alleged the police tried to make them lie under oath.
Tumelo and Mpumelelo (surnames withheld for fear of reprisals) stormed out of Protea police station after a Captain Sekgabi allegedly dragooned them into using print media reports as their statements.
Tumelo was in Jub-Jub’s charcoal doodlebug and Mpumelelo in a blue-and-white toy driven by Themba Tshabalala when they were involved in an accident that claimed the lives of four schoolkids in Protea North, Soweto on Monday.
Relating the matter to Sunday World on Friday, Tumelo says the investigating officer, Inspector Mpho Matshidisho, called him and said he and Mpumelelo must come to the police station to make their statements.
He says their parents accompanied them to the copshop .
“When we arrived there we were told Mpho was not there and we should speak to Captain Sekgabi.
“We went to his office and he produced a copy of a daily newspaper and said we should confirm that what had been published in the article was true and should be used as our statement,” says Tumelo.
“I refused and insisted on giving my statement because what the media reported was in conflict with what happened at the accident scene.”
Tumelo declines to relate to Sunday World what actually happened during the accident.
“I cannot say that now. What I can tell you is that the truth will come out when we go to court (during trial).
“I cannot be forced to lie because when you tell a lie, you will be charged with perjury.
“We are not going to protect anybody here but it is against our democracy for the police to force us to say things that aren’t true,” he says.
Tumelo’s version was reiterated by Mpumelelo, who added that as they were arguing with Captain Sekgabi, Inspector Matshidisho arrived and tried in vain to intervene.
“He told Sekgabi to let us give our statements. But Sekgabi told him that if we are not going to confirm and use what appeared in the newspapers as our statement we should leave.
“Mpho called Sekgabi aside and spoke with him for a while.
“We could see the two of them arguing over the matter.
“But after a while Sekgabi came to us and said we should do as he said or leave and that he would meet us in the box. We left,” says Mpumelelo.
The two men say they will go back to give their statements in the presence of their lawyer.
“Our biggest mistake was to go to the police station without our lawyer.
“That is why they wanted us to use the info that appeared in the media, which is not true, as our statement,” says Mpumelelo.
Sunday World understands that the police wanted them to confirm that Jub Jub and Tshabalala were drag racing because it is difficult for them to prove this.
We also have establish that the police wanted the duo to confirm that Jub Jub’s car was the one that ploughed into the four teens who died instantly but couldn’t establish at the time of going to press whose car mowed the school children down.
SMH.
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